*This post is coming to you a few days early as our staff travels with Beth, which you will read more about below.
Hey, Everybody! It’s May! We are making progress, Girls! By now you are getting some verses down in your bones. I was thrilled two weekends ago when we had our clandestine Siesta picture after the end of our Albuquerque Living Proof Live and a bunch of them brought their spirals. Talk about teacher’s pets! Here they are:
OK! I’ve done a little video – a really, really short one this time – where I say my verses to you while I’m on a walk in our woods so this stands as my official entry for Verse 9! I’m doing memory work right now out of Ephesians Chapter Four and it is so powerful. As you’ll hear in this segment, God seems to have a tremendous partiality to the number ONE.
Y’all, I love doing this with you. I love an SSMT year. You are so dear to us. By the time you’re submitting your verses, I’ll be speaking in London at Hillsong Colour Conference. Our whole LPM staff is coming and many of our volunteers. Melissa is with me and will be heading up a short tour with our volunteers after the Hillsong conference ends, giving emphasis to several figures in Christianity who had tremendous influence on Spiritual formation. We are looking extremely forward to it. Her suitcase weighed 10 whole pounds more than mine strictly from books. Made me grin. The girl is a book nerd if you’ll ever meet one. We were so sad Amanda couldn’t come on this trip but she needed to be home with her very busy family this round. We miss her like nobody’s business. Would all of you please pray for us as we labor in this gorgeous field of harvest? Please ask Jesus to pour out His Holy Spirit lavishly upon us and to give us such hearts of love for every person we serve.  When I say, ask Jesus to pour out His Spirit, I mean like GUSHES. FLOODS, TIDAL WAVES of Living Water. Understand what I’m saying? PRAY BIG. Get in there with your faith if you’d be willing and ask God to be enormously present among us here. Ask for many to be saved, many to be delivered from strongholds, healed, and made whole in Jesus. Ask for multitudes to awaken to the breadth and length and height and depth of the borderless love of Jesus. Thank you! I owe you a debt of love which I gladly, joyfully pay.
Ok, Girls! Hit it with those verses!
Hannah, CT- “Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.” Psalm 34:13, ESV
“He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will triumph over his foes.”
Psalm 112:7 NIV
Tera Ferguson
Gardendale, Alabama
Matthew 7:24 NIV
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Jena
Ruston, LA
“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,” Psalm 139:9 NIV
I am learning the entire chapter this year so some of my verses won’t seem like “memory verses” 🙂
Dawn Ferguson, Peoria, AZ
3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
4 Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
Isaiah 26:3-4 (NLT)
Catasauqua, PA
Proverbs 3: 1 (NLT)
My child, never forget the things that I have taught you. Store my commands in your heart
Stacey, Tomball Psalm 25:4
Show me your ways O Lord
teach me your paths
guide me in your truth & teach me.
“I will not allow the enemies guilt to make me quit”
Psalm 27:14 KJV
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say on the Lord
Stephanie B.
Augusta, GA
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Beth from Sumter, SC:
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. (â€3 John‬ â€1‬:â€4‬ NIV)
Mindy H, West Lafayette, IN : And my God will supply every need of your according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19 (NIV)
I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. Isaiah 45:19c NLT
Melissa Stevens, Kingwood TX
Davina Denny Novato, CA Because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2
Laura Willard, Cedar Park, TX
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:9 (NIV)
Pam Fairhope, Al
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Ephesians 6:10
John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me.”
Bonnie O’Shields, Dacusville, SC
The brother of humble circumstances should boast in his exaltation.
James 1:9 HCSB
Deuteronomy 31:8
“And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, hee will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Heather Hoch Pflugerville, TX
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 3:18 (NASB)
Dawn, Beavercreek, OH
“Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer. Answer me, for I need your help!”
“Psalm 86:1 (NLT)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights. James. 1:17
Debbie
“See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
â€â€Psalm‬ â€139:24‬ â€NIV‬‬
DLynn Miracle; Argyle, TX
Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Psalm 25:6 ESV
Pace, FL
SIESTA Scripture Memory Verse for August 1, 2015 – NIV Life Application Study Bible
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from HIM.”
My 8th grandchild was born last Sunday, August 2, 2015! PRAISE THE LORD!
Crystal and Reese, Psalm 84:9 NLT
O God, look with favor upon the king, our shield!
Show favor to the one you have anointed.
Kathy French, Austin
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight if God and man.” Proverbs 3:3 NIV
Tammie Head, Houston, TX. “But concerning the one who lacks such things–he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.” 2 Peter 1:9, NET
May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth Eph 3:18(ESV)
Kirby Ray, Parsons, KS. “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” Matthew 21:22 NIV
Kristi from Anchorage, Alaska
Philippians 4:4. NLT.
Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!
August 15,2015
Eugenie from Phoenix Arizona
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his high position.
James 1:9 Life Application NIV
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 ESV
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven”. Ecc. 3:1 (NIV)
Lisa
Hendersonville,TN
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work with us.
Ephesians 3:20 NIV
Linda from Raymond
Psalm 27:7 ESV
Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me:
Proverbs 12:10 “The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel”
Diane – Spring, Texas:
“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5) ESV
Don’t bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need.
Matthew 7:7 (MSG)
Don’t bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need.
Matthew 7:7 (MSG)
August 1, 2015 Buda Tx. Eph 1:7 NLT He is so rich in knowledge and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his son and forgave our sins.
Aug. 15, 2015 Buda Tx.NKJV Jeremiah 29:13 And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Sheri, Austin TX
Romans 12:2 NASB
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you will prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Eugenie, Phoenix AZ
Matthew 6:34 NIV
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Beverly Cumberland Gap, TN
Ephesians 6:18 KJV
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
Rosa – Cypress, Tx
Psalms 119:32 (KJV)
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Dorla in Lincoln NE
For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers
Eph 1:15,16 NASB
Brenda Rowland, Mint Hill, NC. 9/1/15
Galatians 5:25 NKJV
If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit.
Covington, LA
1 Kings 2:2-3
“So be strong, act like a man,and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go”
He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.
Psalm 91:4